While the others were upstairs waking Amber and Alfie, Fabian was waking up for the morning. He stiffled a yawn and noticed he wasn't wearing a shirt. That's strange, he thought, I never sleep without a shirt. He rolled out of bed and realized he was completely naked. What happened to me last night?
He hurried to get some clothes on in case Eddie came in when and caught him when he turned to face his bed, he saw Nina in it. After throwing on some clothes, he gently shook Nina awake.
"Five more minutes, Amber," Nina mumbled sleepily.
"Nina, I'm not Amber, and you have to wake up, we need to talk," Fabian told her.
"Fabian? Why am I in your room?" she said, sitting up. "And naked?" she added after looking under the blanket.
"I honestly don't know. I woke up the same way. Hurry and put your clothes back on before someone walks in, I'll turn around so I don't see anything."
"What's it matter now? You obvioulsy saw everything last night," she responded.
"Well, I actually don't remember anything really. Its all a blur. What do you remember?"
"Um, now that you mention it, the last thing I remember is Victor leaving last night. I think."
After Nina was clothed, they walked out in the hall checking everywhere. It was just a little after seven. Trudy normally wakes up at seven-thirty on weekends. They needed to get Nina back upstairs before they were caught.
As they reached the bottom of the stairs, they saw Amber, Alfie, Eddie, Patricia, Mara, and Joy coming down. Nina and Fabian nervously exchanged a glance. Bloody hell, Fabian thought, now we're caught. Eddie had to have seen us and told them everything.
"Guys," Patricia whispered, "go back to Jerome and Alfie's room, we need to talk."
"Okay?" said Nina nervously.
They all entered the room to find Jerome sleeping, seemingly shirtless under the covers. At least they hoped he was only shirtless.
"Jerome," Mara said, shaking him, "wake up!"
"Mara? What are you doing in here?" he asked, he opened his eyes to find the whole house staring at him. "Why are all of you in here, looking at me? Why am I shirtless? I never sleep shirtless." He then looked under his covers and added, "actually, I never sleep naked. What's going on? I don't remember anything."
"Thats what we need to talk about. Here's what we need to do," said Joy, "you all need to get to your rooms and get dressed like you just woke up and come to breakfast. Act natural. After breakfast, we will go somewhere where we can't be overheard and talk."
Alfie peeked out into the hall and saw Trudy heading to the kitchen. "Trudy just went into the kitchen, we need to distract her so we can get the girls past her. I'll put on my pyjamas and offer to help with breakfast while you all sneak by."
After getting dressed with everyone facing away from him, Alfie headed to the kitchen. "Hey, Trudes, you need any help?"
Fabian's job was to check on Victor so the girls could get by. As he was near the cellar door about to sneak to the stairs, Victor walked out of his office and started coming down the stairs. Fabian ran to hide in the boy's bathroom while Victor walked into the living room.
"Ah, Trudy, I need to step out for a few minutes. Mr. Sweet has called and he has an emergency in the school. I'll be back shortly. Make sure Lewis, there, doesn't burn down the house. I don't think we need to call the fire department again like last time."
"Yes," Fabian whispered to himself before going back to tell the others. "Victor just went over to see Sweetie, get past Trudy and we're clear. See you all in a few."
They all went their seperate ways to get their clothes on because most of them were wearing the same clothes as last night. By eight, they were all in the dining room eating breakfast.
"Morning, lovlies!" Trudy said happily. "You all did a great job of being in bed at a reasonible time!" When no one said anything, Trudy asked, "is everything alright? You all aren't behaving normally."
"Oh, we're fine Trudy, just a bit tired. We watched a scary movie last night and I guess some of us had difficultly sleeping," Nina lied.
"That makes sense, enjoy your breakfast!"
After breakfast, they all got dressed for the day. Nina suggested meeting in the woods near the Sibuna clearing and passed the message to Fabian to tell the guys while she told the girls. When they were all at the clearing, the discussion started.
"Alright," Nina said, "I'll start by asking, what the last thing everyone remember leaving last night?"
"Victor leaving," was everyone's reply.
"Actually, I remember smelling something strange just after Victor left," Mara stated.
"Now that you mention it, I kind of remember Mara saying that, and there was something off about the room last night," Patricia said.
"Joy was gone when we smelled that, right?" asked Fabian. Joy nodded. "What do you remember when you came back?"
"Well, I got back about eight-thirty and the living room was empty. I just figured everyone had gone to bed early for some reason so I went upstairs to get ready for bed and found Eddie and Patricia in our room snogging like tomorrow was cancelled and ripping their clothes off. I went to see if I could find anyone else. I won't even say what I saw Amber and Alfie doing. Jerome and Mara were going at it pretty bad too. No offense to the rest of you, but Nina and Fabian shocked me the most. They were in the floor in Fabian's room half naked."
"That explains the cut on my elbow," Fabian said.
"Yeah, so after that, I just got the pyjamas from the night before from the hamper, put them on and slept in the bathroom. Until Mara came in and woke me up this morning."
"So what we have is a funny smell and our completely out of character behavior, yeah?" asked Patricia.
"Joy wasn't here, so what ever it was that affected us happened while she was gone since she remembers everything from last night," said Jerome.
"Do you think it was aliens?" asked Alfie.
"No, but what if it had something to do with that funny smell?" asked Eddie.
"Joy, did you smell anything when you came back?" asked Nina. Joy shook her head. "Okay, so maybe it was that smell, but what could it have been?"
"Maybe aliens gassed us with some sort of sex gas!" Alfie said.
"Alfie!" whined Amber. "It wasn't aliens." Amber was clearly still apalled with what had happened.
"Do you think it could've been some horomone gas or something?" asked Fabian.
"That makes sense, I mean we are teenagers after all," Nina said. "Our horomones are already going crazy on their own. What ever it was caused a horomonal explosion or something."
"Yeah, Neens, we are better than average looking teenagers with 'those feelings,'" said Amber, putting air quotes around 'those feelings.' (A/N: yes, that line came from the iCarly episode iStart a Fan War, I thought it was kind of fitting)
"Now that we all think it was some sort of gas, we have to find out where it came from," Mara began. "I don't think any of us did it. Alfie and Jerome would be the only ones that would, but they wouldn't be capable of doing something like that. We were the only ones in the house right? The windows were closed as well. Do you think it had something to do with the furnace?"
Fabian and Nina glanced at each other thinking the same thing. If it came from the furnace, it came from the cellar. Who spends time in the cellar? Victor.
"Well, if its possible that it came from the furnace, it definitely originated in the cellar. Fabian, Patricia, and I could sneak down when Victor is busy and see what we can find," Nina told them. They nodded in agreement.
"Alright, if we find anything, we will pass the information on. I think we should get back, its kind of chilly out here," Fabian said.
